Misbah whines all the time when her dipper & clothes are being changed, unless off course you get her interested in something else. If I stand there making funny faces she will laugh or if we give her the cell phone to play with she will let us change her peacefully, otherwise for the whole time she is constantly shrieking. Sometimes none of it works.
So, the question is to the experienced ones if they know a way to calm her down so she doesn’t wake up everyone in the house first thing in the morning? We make sure our hands are not cold; she is properly fed before changing; we don’t put hard hand on her and loads of prayers. Any other suggestions??
You might want to distract her with toys or give her your cell phone to play with. From dealing with a 2 yr old cousin I can tell you he used to thrive on seeing me get stressed, so I learned to be more calm. I would distract him by giving him a ballon to play with, their cheap and sure beats the headache you get from their don't change me I would rather spend the day in my poopy diaper attitude. You might also want to get her a doll that wears diapers and talk to her about how she can change the dolls diaper when your done with her so their both pretty and clean and ready to play. Kids love to play so make diaper changing into some sort of game. Good luck!
your daughter knows this is something she can control, especially the nappy changing part as most babies her age hate that.
You need to give her ownership of what your doing. ask her to help or assist, i know shes young but this always worked with my babies. even getting her to pick her clothes up or whatever.
One thing that we tried with one of my babies was the whole "you can wash your hands after we'r finished" cos she loved washing her hands, i think most babies love water.
Bribe her with something, not sweets or anything, but something you know she'l love.
Im not a mother by the way, iv only helped raised a few kids and as all kids are different this may not work.
look it upside-down, Misbah is only 14 months, she is just a kid and thats what kids do, they cry, they laugh, they run, they fall let her be a kid "Dont change her" :)
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your daughter knows this is something she can control, especially the nappy changing part as most babies her age hate that.
You need to give her ownership of what your doing. ask her to help or assist, i know shes young but this always worked with my babies. even getting her to pick her clothes up or whatever.
One thing that we tried with one of my babies was the whole "you can wash your hands after we'r finished" cos she loved washing her hands, i think most babies love water.
Bribe her with something, not sweets or anything, but something you know she'l love.
Im not a mother by the way, iv only helped raised a few kids and as all kids are different this may not work.
There is no universal way to stop them crying at nappy time. I usually give Harris toys in both hands and just change it very quickly.....most of the time he's so into his toys that he barely had time to register whats happening before it's all over.
A lot of it comes with practice though, I think babies can sense anxiety. When I was new to the whole nappy changing thing then Harris cried a lot, most of it was down to me taking so long and trying to figure out which way round the nappy was meant to go. Now I'm a pretty dab hand at it even if I say so myself.
i remembed my baby brother, but he loved getting cleaned